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Koine Greek wordlink #136242

SR GNT 1Th 4:3 ἀπέχεσθαι (apeⱪesthai) ‘the holiness of you_all to_be keeping_away you_all from sexual_immorality’ Strongs=5680 Lemma=apeχō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=middle

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Other uses (4) of identical word form ἀπέχεσθαι (V-NPM....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀπέχεσθαι’ (V-NPM....) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be keeping_away’.

Acts 15:20 ‘but to write to them to_be keeping_away from the pollutions of idols’ SR GNT Acts 15:20 word 5

Acts 15:29 ‘to_be keeping_away from idol_sacrificed things and from blood’ SR GNT Acts 15:29 word 1

1Tim 4:3 ‘forbidding to_be marrying to_be keeping_away from foods that god’ SR GNT 1Tim 4:3 word 3

1Pet 2:11 ‘sojourners and aliens to_be keeping_away from the fleshly desires’ SR GNT 1Pet 2:11 word 7

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘apeχō’ have 9 different glosses: ‘be keeping_away’, ‘is being_away’, ‘to_be keeping_away’, ‘I am receiving_fully’, ‘it is receiving_fully’, ‘they are receiving_fully’, ‘you may receive_fully’, ‘you_all are receiving_fully’, ‘being_away’.

Greek words (1) other than ἀπέχεσθαι (V-NPM....) with a gloss related to ‘keeping_away’

1TH 5:22 ἀπέχεσθε (apeⱪesthe) V-MPM2..P ‘every appearance of evil be keeping_away’ SR GNT 1Th 5:22 word 5

Key: V=verb MPM2..P=imperative,present,middle,2nd person plural NPM....=infinitive,present,middle